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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Muscato's Musings

Reflecting On Differences and Making Distinctions in Easton

The not nice ... the baffling ... and the borderline hilarious in Easton.

  Is it possible for a white male like myself, of “fairly” sound mind and body, to know prejudice and discrimination? Well, in comparison to people of color in this nation, I would say that I have the charmed existence, with all the benefits of this country at my beckoning. I mean, really, I am a white guy who grew up in comfortable circumstances with parents who loved me — and by genetic accident I even had some biological advantage which I worked on to earn myself an athletic scholarship to a prestigious university. (Believe me, it was the athletics that weighed far more heavily than the academics in gaining me acceptance to Boston College.) Yet, even among white people there is prejudice held against one another — even if in the broader…

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